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New Urban Social Movements, Situated Practice and the Affordances of a Porous Urban Space.

With this presentation I intend to put forward a new definition of urban porosity as a notion capable of describing the necessary rich quality coupling urban space and social and civic engagement. This is done through the analysis of the social space pract ...

2016

Building Marshall Plan in Turkey: The formation of workers' housing question, 1946-1962

Sila Karatas

This thesis aims to analyze the formation of workers’ housing question at manpower, topographical, morphological and habitual scales with regard to the ideological, political, economical, cultural and institutional programming of Americanization in Turkey ...

Middle East Technical University2015

Through the Hourglass: A Faithful Audiovisual Reconstruction of the Old Montreux Casino

Martin Vetterli

In architecture, space is traditionally understood as a cumulus of forms, colors and textures that form a conceived area, or-in other words-architectural space design is mainly achieved by following visual concepts. The human experience of space, however, ...

Springer2015

An optimization framework for the development of efficient one-way car-sharing systems

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Burak Boyaci, Konstantinos Zografos

Electric vehicle-sharing systems have been introduced to a number of cities as a means of increasing mobility, reducing congestion, and pollution. Electric vehicle-sharing systems can offer one or two-way services. One-way systems provide more flexibility ...

Elsevier2015

Geotypen : ein neues Konzept zur Optimierung geologischer Informationen für die Raumplanung

Aurèle Parriaux, Pascal Turberg

When we have to valorise the geological information for land planning or engineering applications, it is difficult to integrate the large complexity of the maps of the Swiss Geological Atlas at the scale of 1:25'000. The heterogeneity of the legends betwee ...

2015

Relationship between land cover type and Body Mass Index in Geneva

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, Jens Ingensand, Estelle Rochat, Ivo Widmer, Alain Clémence

Past studies conducted in urban areas analyzed the impact of the presence of green spaces on public health, and highlighted in particular the psychological benefits of interacting with nature. To investigate a supposed relationship between overweight and d ...

IEEE2015

Fiona Pia primée au ForumAlpinum 2014

Fiona Pia

"Alpine inhabited infrastructures". Lors de l'évènement Forum Alpinum 2014, organisé notamment par l'ISCAR, Fiona Pia présente la partie recherche appliquée de son doctorat. Elle montre le projet, en cours d'étude, de densification et de mobilité à Verbier ...

2014

Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies

Nancy Raewyn Couling

Ocean space is currently being urbanized on an unprecedented scale, a phenomenon under investigation by the architectural laboratoire bâle, EPFL Switzerland. Lefebvre writes of the all-encompassing process of urbanization, that agriculture, industry and ur ...

2014

A fine scale analysis of socio-economic and landscape variables for the assessment of health status in Geneva

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, Joël Chételat, Abram Pointet

Significant differences in health status between inhabitants of different commune types of the Geneva area have recently been established in a study relying on a large health database managed by the Unit of Population Epidemiology of the Hôpitaux Universit ...

2012

Cell-Based Deformation Monitoring via 3D Point Clouds

Jing Wu

Deformation is one of the most important phenomena in environmental science and engineering. Deformation of artificial and natural objects happens worldwide, such as structural deformation, landslide, subsidence, erosion, and rockfall. Monitoring and asses ...

EPFL2012

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